Can Literature Promote Justice? : Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nance, Kimberly A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literature and society > Latin America.
Latin American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A genre without a strategy? : Latin American testimonio as a rhetorical project
  • A genre without an addressee? : readers, rhetoric, and resistance
  • A genre without a chance? : predicting the social effectiveness of testimonial narratives
  • The capacities and constraints of testimonio's speakers and experiencing writers
  • The capacities and constraints of collaborating writers, translators, editors, and publishers
  • The capacities and constraints of critics : celebration and mourning
  • Conclusion : from poetics to prosaics
  • Appendix : A brief history of Latin American testimonial narrative.

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